Danilo Petrucci is set to make his comeback to MotoGP to replace the injured Joan Mir at the Thailand Grand Prix.
Mir, the 2020 MotoGP world champion, has been out of action since breaking his ankle in an opening-lap crash at the Austrian Grand Prix in August.
It was thought he would return for this weekend's Thailand GP, but the recovery of his right ankle is taking longer than expected and he will now aim to be back on his Suzuki at the Australian GP in two weeks' time.Petrucci made his MotoGP debut in 2012 and rose from a back-of-the-grid seat at Ioda on a CRT-spec machine to the factory Ducati squad in 2019.
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